Bernard Holland Quotes
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
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I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
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Recycling plastic is a good thing. However, stopping the cycle - and the plastic waste - before it starts is better.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
